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Linux Foundation PCA Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Linux Foundation |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Exam |
| Exam Number: | PCA |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Exam Format: | Online proctored, Multiple-choice |
| Exam Duration: | 90 minutes |
| Related Certifications: | CKAD CKA KCNA |
| Passing Score: | 75% |
| Exam Price: | $250 USD |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Recommended Training: | Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241) |
| Exam Registration: | Linux Foundation Training |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online, remote proctored, closed-book exam |
| Pre Condition: | No formal prerequisites; familiarity with cloud-native environments and basic monitoring concepts recommended |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/prometheus-certified-associate/ |
Linux Foundation PCA Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Observability Concepts | 18% | - Tracing and Spans - SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs basics - Service Discovery - Push vs Pull models - Logs and events - Metrics |
| Topic 2: Prometheus Fundamentals | 20% | - Configuration and Scraping - System Architecture - Data Model and Labels - Limitations of Prometheus - Exposition Format |
| Topic 3: PromQL | 28% | - Histograms - Aggregation over dimensions - Aggregation over time - Timestamp handling - Rates and derivatives - Binary operators - Data selection |
| Topic 4: Instrumentation and Exporters | 16% | - Metric naming and structure - Exporters - Client Libraries - Instrumentation best practices |
| Topic 5: Alerting & Dashboarding | 18% | - Alertmanager usage and configuration - Alert rule configuration - Alerting principles and use cases - Dashboard design basics |
PCA Exam FAQ: Before You Book Your Seat
Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate is an official Linux Foundation exam, listed under exam code PCA. A passing result earns you the Prometheus Certified Associate certification at the Associate level. It also ties into KCNA, CKA, CKAD, extending its value across your certification roadmap. Employers read this credential as verified competence, which is why it keeps appearing in job requirements.
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Passing Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate requires 75%, and the official registration fee is $250 USD. Retakes charge the full $250 USD again, which is why experienced candidates treat preparation as the cheaper exam fee. Verify your readiness with repeated ActualPDF practice scores above the requirement before you commit to a date.
No formal prerequisites; familiarity with cloud-native environments and basic monitoring concepts recommended
Requirements evolve, so confirm the current conditions before registering on the official exam page.
Registration for Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate goes through the official channels listed here.
When you schedule, note that the exam is delivered Online, remote proctored, closed-book exam.
Linux Foundation recommends the following training for Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate candidates.
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The Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate syllabus spans 5 domains, led by Observability Concepts (18%), Alerting & Dashboarding (18%), and Instrumentation and Exporters (16%). The complete topic list is published above; candidates who study the map first rarely get lost later.
Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate Sample Questions:
Question 1
What is the minimum requirement for an application to expose Prometheus metrics?
A. It must be compiled for 64-bit architectures.
B. It must be exposed to the Internet.
C. It must be able to serve text over HTTP.
D. It must run on Linux.
Question 2
Which of the following signals belongs to symptom-based alerting?
A. CPU usage
B. Database availability
C. API latency
D. Disk space
Question 3
How can you send metrics from your Prometheus setup to a remote system, e.g., for long-term storage?
A. With "federation"
B. With S3 Buckets
C. With "scraping"
D. With "remote write"
Question 4
Given the metric prometheus_tsdb_lowest_timestamp_seconds, how do you know in which month the lowest timestamp of your Prometheus TSDB belongs?
A. prometheus_tsdb_lowest_timestamp_seconds % month
B. (time() - prometheus_tsdb_lowest_timestamp_seconds) / 86400
C. format_date(prometheus_tsdb_lowest_timestamp_seconds,"%M")
D. month(prometheus_tsdb_lowest_timestamp_seconds)
Question 5
What is metamonitoring?
A. Metamonitoring is the monitoring of non-IT systems.
B. Metamonitoring is a monitoring that covers 100% of a service.
C. Metamonitoring is monitoring social networks for end user complaints about quality of service.
D. Metamonitoring is the monitoring of the monitoring infrastructure.
Solutions:
| Question 1 Answer: C | Question 2 Answer: C | Question 3 Answer: D | Question 4 Answer: B | Question 5 Answer: D |
